In its main features the Declaration of Independence is a great spiritual document. It is a declaration not of material but of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
I like that there are so many different ways of looking at the world and I like all of the particular narratives.… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Listen, my friend! Your helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect… — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
As long as we are flippant and stupid and shallow and think that we know ourselves, we shall never give ourselves over… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Evidence is mounting that faith-based service programs are often more successful than other programs in correcting social problems. [It is wrong] for… — Ronald J. Sider Copy Share Image
In college, in the early 1950s, I began to learn a little about how science works, the secrets of its great success,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We're trying to be very careful and precise in our use of language, because I think the language we use and the… — John O. Brennan Copy Share Image
A spiritual sensibility encourages us to see ourselves as part of the fundamental unity of all being. If the thrust of the… — Michael Lerner Copy Share Image
Yet know this: there is no such thing as an incorrect path - for on this journey you cannot "not get" where… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
“Your faith is designed to operate outside of your emotions. When you operate in faith, how you feel has no bearing on… — Dawn M Harvey Copy Share Image
Does the unmistakeable intent of Versailles to proclaim dominion over nature destroy its aesthetic appeal, as Schopenhauer thought? Does the greenness of… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
The feeling of righteousness is the core mood alteration among religious addicts. Religious addiction is a massive problem in our society. It… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
Scientists and religious leaders, activists and first nation leaders, CEOs of corporations and actors, all of us need to come together right… — Ellen Page Copy Share Image
Whenever you're in a natural system and you're making sound, you are putting yourself at risk. As you go up the evolutionary… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
One reason why I recommend the abandonment of religious beliefs is because I think those beliefs are wrong. There is no evidence… — Simon LeVay Copy Share Image
It is one thing to be delivered from bad thoughts, and another to be freed from the passions. Often people are delivered… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
If you are religious, you believe that your religion is the 'right' one—and, in many cases, all others will be sent to… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
I believe that prayer in public schools should be voluntary. It is difficult for me to see how religious exercises can be… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Hey, have you ever heard of the Alchemists? " "Sure, " he said. "Of course you have. " "Why? Did you run… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
For decades, since the mid-twentieth century, the nationalist movement, and Fatah in particular, has dominated the political scene. Palestinian politics were primarily… — Hanan Ashrawi Copy Share Image
A united humanity will be able to confront the many troubling problems of the present time: from the menace of terrorism to… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Relying, as I do, upon the Almighty Power, and encouraged as I am by these resolutions which you have just read, with… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I don't think that Donald Trump represents the traditional Republican values and heritage of my party. That's one reason that I don't… — Gwen Ifill Copy Share Image
The term Christian used to be a pejorative. Back in the day, Christians were persecuted; however, over time, it became one of… — Simon Tam Copy Share Image
I am not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Science and religion are very much alike. Both are imaginative and creative aspects of the human mind. The appearance of a conflict… — John Eccles Copy Share Image
About 3 million IVF babies have been born since Louise Brown's birth in 1978. Bizarrely, when this life-giving treatment was first considered,… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
The great religious ages were notable for their indifference to human rights... not only for acquiescence in poverty, inequality, exploitation and oppression,… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Legal systems, at both the national and international level, are therefore required to recognize, guarantee and protect religious freedom, which is a… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; he does not kill… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
No matter how much we may study, it is not possible to come to know God unless we live according to His… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
One of the duties which devolve upon women in the present interesting crisis, is to prepare themselves for more extensive usefulness, by… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
The same failure of liberalism is evident in Western Europe, where the dogma of multiculturalism has left a secular Europe very slow… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
No one can know how long this dumbing-down of American religion will persist. But so long as it does, citizens should probably… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
Right now, culturally, we're seeing a really interesting evolution in ideas about spirituality and the world, right? The number of people who… — Adam Frank Copy Share Image
Mankind has tried the other two roads to peace - the road of political jealousy and the road of religious bigotry -… — Garrett P. Serviss Copy Share Image
There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other. Every serious… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
It could be Fascist, religious or political - it's always the same model that operates in these circumstances, and it's that which… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
![“I like that there are so many different ways of looking at the world and I like all of the particular narratives. In any case we will never all see the same way on these [religious] issues. It's the way liberals and conservatives will never see the same way on individuals whereas it’s different…” quote by Rebecca Goldstein](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4bd/rebecca-goldstein-4026_agree_i-like-that-there-are-so-many-different_2699631.jpg)
![“Evidence is mounting that faith-based service programs are often more successful than other programs in correcting social problems. [It is wrong] for government to demand that religious nonprofits gut precisely that part of their program [funded through tax dollars] that makes them so effective.” quote by Ronald J. Sider](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/2fc/ronald-j-sider-37410_correcting_evidence-is-mounting-that-faith-based-se_954231.png)
![“No one can know how long this dumbing-down of American religion will persist. But so long as it does, citizens should probably be more vigilant about policing the public square, not less so. . . . [Y]ou cannot sustain liberal democracy without cultivating liberal habits of mind among religious…” quote by Mark Lilla](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/868/mark-lilla-13300_baghdad_no-one-can-know-how-long-this-dumbing-do_1328242.jpg)
